Joely Richardson

A member of one of the world's most acclaimed acting dynasties, Joely Richardson was a late bloomer in her family's chosen profession, but by the early 1990s and into the next century she established...
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Actors Giovanni Ribisi and Joely Richardson have just made movie history in Cuba by wrapping the first Hollywood feature since 1960 to be shot in the country. Director Bob Yari's Papa is the first film since U.S. leader Barack Obama relaxed trade and cultural embargoes on Cuba last month (Jan15) to legitimately shoot in Havana.
In the film, Ribisi portrays real-life journalist Ed Myers, who travelled to Cuba in the late 1950s in search of his literary idol Ernest Hemingway, who taught his guest how to fish amid the early days of the Cuban Revolution.
One of the movie's locations is Hemingway's home, which is currently maintained as a national museum.
Adrian Sparks plays Hemingway in the film and Richardson the writer's wife, Mary.
Hemingway's actress granddaughter Mariel has a cameo in the movie.

British actress Joely Richardson is set to portray revered American poet Emily Dickinson in a new one-woman show. The Nip/Tuck star will tackle the role in an Off Broadway production of William Luce's play The Belle of Amherst, which is based on Dickinson's life story.
Richardson admits she never imagined herself taking on such a big job, saying, "Never say never. I always swore to myself that I would never do a one-woman show. I thought, 'That's for crazy people'. And then I read it (the script for The Belle of Amherst)."
Steve Cosson will direct the stage show, which is scheduled to open on 19 October (14) at New York's Westside Theatre.
Richardson will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of actress Julie Harris, who won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Dickinson in a Broadway production of the play in 1977.
The Brit last appeared on the New York stage in 2012 in productions of Ivanov, opposite Ethan Hawke, and Side Effects.

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Everyone knows Ryan Murphy from the wildly popular supernatural thriller American Horror Story and the musical teen comedy Glee. Five people know him from the failed sitcom The New Normal. However, Murphy’s first critically acclaimed series was the sexy, no holds barred series Nip/Tuck. This surgery-focused soap helped define the FX network. It capitalized on the channel’s ability to use suggestive language, strong sexual dialogue, and nudity. Not to mention it really explored society’s obsession with perfection and touched on issues ranging from female circumcision to sex addiction.
William McNamara (Dylan Walsh) is a plastic surgeon and depressive family man struggling with a disenchanted wife Julia (Joely Richardson) and a really angry son Matt (John Hensley). His partner at the medical practice is Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), a hardcore ladies man obsessed with his looks, youth, and freewheeling lifestyle. They help their patients fix whatever they don’t like about their bodies but the surgery of the week often has to do with a major issue affecting the cast. The show blends family drama with major dramatic conventions like a serial rapist, gang connection, and an organ-harvesting ring.
The guest stars on the show include a significant portion of IMDb. Not only does the series feature American Horror Story cast members Kate Mara, Sarah Paulson, and Christine Eastabrook, it also features Lily Rabe’s mother Jill Clayburgh who was nominated for an Emmy for her appearance on the show. Glee cast members Jesalyn Gilsig and Iqbal Theba. Not to mention appearances by huge A-list actors like Bradley Cooper, MoNique, and Alec Baldwin. Extra host Mario Lopez reveals his assets as a rival doctor. Famke Janssen and Vanessa Redgrave have major recurring roles on the show. There is even an appearance by French film icon Catherine Deneuve andRuPaul's Drag Race stars Willam Belli and Kelly Mantle.
Besides stunt casting and shock value the series has a major core of really solid storytelling. The dark and twisted lives of the people responsible for creating beauty is sometimes too much to handle. The series is not only unafraid to explore sexual taboos, controversial politics, and downright trashy soap opera conventions, but is deliciously addctive and includes quite a few twists, misdirects, and WTF moments (much like Murphy’s other series). Fans of the outlandish plots of American Horror Story or the offbeat comedy of Glee will love this show. The series offers great binge-watching potential and is great to feed your Netflix addiction. The entire series is available and you can pop a bottle of champagne, circle your problem areas, and enjoy every jaw-dropping minute.
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Members of Britain's most famous theatrical families will come together on the London stage when Vanessa Redgrave's granddaughter makes her debut alongside Jack Fox. Daisy Bevan, daughter of Nip/Tuck star Joely Richardson, is following her mother and grandmother into the family business after landing a leading role in a stage production of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The title character will be played by Fox, who is also a member of one of the U.K.'s most famous acting dynasties - his father is James Fox, his brother is Lawrence Fox, and he is the cousin of Freddie and Emilia Fox.
It will also mark the actor's professional stage debut, and Fox admits he has asked his father for advice.
He tells the London Evening Standard newspaper, "He has wonderful pearls of wisdom. He said, 'Think about what your character wants in every scene and if you do that you will be able to get into his head a little bit'. My dad's a model professional and a perfect dad. He's my idol. My family have always been there for me."
Bevan is equally as thrilled to get her big break in theatre: "I was very excited to get my first theatre job. The world of theatre is so different from film acting. Being in a rehearsal room is electrifyingly exciting. But there's an added pressure because of the work my family does. What if I'm the black sheep, the one who can't do it?"
The play will open at the Riverside Studios in London on Thursday (17Apr14).

Dame Helen Mirren was finally given the royal thumbs up for her portrayal of The Queen at a Buckingham Palace party in London on Monday night (17Feb14). The actress was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship by Prince William, the Queen's grandson, on Sunday (16Feb14), and 24 hours later she was in his company again at the palace.
Mirren was welcomed by William's wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, who joked that her husband had referred to the actress as "granny" at the awards ceremony.
Last week (ends14Feb14), a nervous Mirren revealed she hoped that Prince William's presence at the BAFTAs was a sure sign that the royal family liked her Oscar-winning turn as his grandmother in The Queen.
She said, "I don't think he'd do it (present the award) if the royal family felt I had messed up. I hope it's a sign they don't think I messed up. But I don't know, and I will never know for sure."
Monday night's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Reception at Buckingham Palace was also attended by Helena Bonham Carter, director Steve McQueen, Roger Moore, Joan Collins, Dame Angela Lansbury, Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Joely Richardson.

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Endless Love has awakened something in me. Not a long dormant passion for an introverted high school classmate, or a sudden desire to break into the zoo after dark. A question about movies — more accurately, about movie criticism. The same question you would ask yourself if you fell drowsy in the middle of Citizen Kane, or welled up during the emotional climax of Just Friends. The question I ask myself now, as I recount the 103 straight minutes of asphyxiating laughter that I endured during a screening of Shana Feste’s would-be romantic drama: What makes a good movie?
We assign deference to some films, disgust to others — a lucky few of us make a living this way. But what, precisely, are we reviewing? A film’s mission or its execution? The product onscreen or the experience of watching it? All factors come into play when considering whether or not a movie “works.” But on rare occasions you’ll get a film that offers no common ground in its meeting of these standards. You’ll get Endless Love, which strives for dramatic sincerity, winds up with underwritten idiocy, and provokes in its viewers an unrestrained, absurdist revelry — the kind of joy you’d otherwise be forced to seek in a third viewing of The Lego Movie. Laughter at the ill-conceived antics and befuddling dialectical patterns of our central teen couple — a Mars native Gabrielle Wilde and her gaping mouthed beau Alex Pettyfer. Elated bemusement at the younger generation’s propensity for chaotic disrobing and didactically organized dance parties. Unprecedented ecstasy at the Mafia movie intimidation tactics of an overprotective dad (Bruce Greenwood) and the brain-dead disregard of a supportive one (Robert Patrick). As a comedy, Endless Love is unstoppable.
I can only hypothesize that it was not Feste’s intention to roll us in the aisles. I have no cold proof that her resolution in paving every nook in her Georgia-set remake with another farcical stone — Wilde’s instantaneous evolution from wordless ingénue to sexually aggressive spirit walker, Patrick’s loving caution-to-the-wind attitude regarding any situation that has to do with a girl, Rhys Wakefield’s “black sheep” character forming an odd amalgamation of Pauly Shore and Charlie St. Cloud — was not one of Wolf of Wall Street-like satire, or reappropriation in the vein of Spring Breakers. Here are two movies that earned scorn from viewers who read them literally, and in turn vehement defense from those who peered through the exaltation of cocaine and firearms into the filmmakers’ ironic intentions.
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To the latter community, one to which I subscribe, I ask: if we’re readily willing to dive deeper for Martin Scorsese and Harmony Korine, shouldn’t we grant Feste this benefit? If we’d defend the authenticity of the splendor we recognized in their movies, why am I inclined to write off the very same when present in this year’s Valentine’s Day cannonball? Why do I eagerly laud the merit in Leonardo DiCaprio directing Quaalude-charged tribal chants and relinquishing subhuman treatment upon anyone short a Y-chromosome, while instinctively shafting the invaluable merriment in Pettyfer’s goofily deliberate declaration that he likes to read into the category of happy accident?
But an even more precise question (one I was challenged to entertain by a friend and film critic far wiser than I am), and this time to the former community: does it matter? Did it matter to all those offended by gunplay and intrusive nudity that Korine set out to demonize youth culture and its omnipresent hedonism? Did considering his intentions make the endgame any less a visceral nightmare? If not, does it matter if Feste poured her soul into the machination of a timeless love story, only to produce a riotous cinematic episode that treads genre parody as expertly as anything from the golden age of the Zucker brothers? Does it matter that she didn’t intend for Wilde and Pettyfer’s sex scene to come off as super-hoke, for every mention of cancer to feel like soap opera send-up, or for Robert Patrick’s vindication of his son’s passion for menagerie trespassing to elicit the biggest laugh of a movie yet in 2014?
So long as I consider the power of cinema, I’ll never be sure if it matters. I’ll never be sure of the answers to any of these questions. But no matter where I find myself standing on this issue down the line, I had far too much fun at Endless Love — and entertained far too many questions on the nature of cinema and the way we react to it — to call it a movie that people shouldn’t see.
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Late British actress Natasha Richardson was honoured at a charity event in New York City this week (beg03Feb14) attended by her widower Liam Neeson and mother Vanessa Redgrave. Richardson, who died in a skiing accident in 2009, was feted for her philanthropy during the 2014 amfAR gala at the Cipriani Wall Street venue in Manhattan on Wednesday (05Feb14).
The event was attended by Neeson and the couple's two sons, as well as Richardson's actress mother Redgrave and her sister Joely Richardson, who accepted an award on her late sibling's behalf.
Neeson and Redgrave also made speeches, and Richardson admits she felt overwhelmed with emotion when a video of her sister was played after her mother's address, telling the audience, "It's always nice to speak after Vanessa Redgrave... I really did want to come up here and make silly jokes like, 'Behind every great woman is one idiotic daughter,' and then you played this video, which we didn't know about, and it absolutely floored me. So amazing to see my sister's face again supporting amfAR... I'm a little bit emotional. It was that video."
Actress Robin Wright was also on hand to honour photographer Peter Lindbergh for his charity work, while other attendees included veteran crooner Harry Belafonte and actress Jane Krakowski.

British actress Joely Richardson went through a series of traumatic life changes following the death of her sister Natasha - her grief prompted the breakdown of her relationship and the loss of many friends. Natasha Richardson, 45, passed away in 2009 after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a skiing accident in Canada, and the tragedy devastated her younger sister.
The Nip/Tuck star has now revealed she shut herself off from her loved ones, and her sad state of mind led to the loss of her boyfriend, while she also drifted apart from many of her pals.
She tells Britain's Sunday Telegraph, "Tasha leaving us was just absolutely heartbreaking, and it was heartbreaking over a very long period of time. When you are close to someone, your whole take on life is very interconnected, however different you are, which we were.
"Going into restaurants, an airport, a cafe - in a way it was a beautiful thing, that people cared about Tash enough to come up to me - but it was a constant onslaught of something I wasn’t ready to accept for a long time. So I became very private and cut myself off...
"A lot of my friends changed, my relationship went, everything went, life as I knew it.”
The actress admits it took her four years to move on from the tragedy, and she only began to feel better again this spring (13).
She adds, "I suddenly realised that enough time had gone by for me to accept that this was the new way of life and to really start embracing joy. It’s too easy to be a victim, and it’s boring."

The Taken star attended the event with Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson, the mother and sister of his late wife Natasha Richardson, to pay tribute to the six-generation acting dynasty and its contribution to theatre.
The three were honoured alongside Natasha, who was killed in a skiing accident in 2009, and other late family members Corin Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.
The event was also attended by stars including actress Jessica Chastain and actor Alan Cumming, who sang Mein Herr from Broadway hit Cabaret in honour of Rodgers and Hammerstein executive director Theodore S. Chapin.
All proceeds from the event went to American Theater Wings' education and outreach programs.

The 101 Dalmatians star visited villages in Ethiopia to see the work British charity Save The Children is doing with teen mothers in the impoverished country.
She met several young girls, some who became parents as young as 10 years old, while others were married off to older men by their families.
But despite the harrowing stories she encountered, Richardson has hailed the trip as life-changing and is urging British Prime Minister David Cameron to pledge his support to help children across the continent.
She tells Hello! magazine, "I felt honoured so many girls were prepared to share their stories with me, a stranger. What I found most difficult was talking to girls aged only nine and 10 about marriage. Sex education is totally taboo. Although the legal age of marriage is 18, it's virtually impossible to implement it as birth certificates are rarely available and birthdays aren't celebrated. Meeting so many girls who had been promised to older men, seeing the fear in their eyes and how helpless they felt, has stayed with me.
"We need to look after children globally. We can all do out bit to put this right. My time in Ethiopia was full of hope. I saw real change taking place, albeit slowly."

Cast opposite opposite Glenn Close in the Disney live-action remake of "101 Dalmatians"

Directed by her father Tony Richardson in her film debut "The Hotel New Hampshire"

Cast as Queen Katherine Parr, Henry's sixth and last wife, in the fourth season of "The Tudors" (Showtime)

Acted opposite Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro in the drama thriller "Red Lights"

Portrayed Marie Antoinette in "The Affair of the Necklace"

Made NY stage debut in "Madame Melville" opposite Macauley Culkin

Played opposite Mel Gibson in the film "The Patriot"

Featured in the comedy "King Ralph"

First feature speaking role, "Wetherby"; portrayed her mother's character as a young woman

Played the wife of Dr. Sean McNamara on the FX drama "Nip/Tuck"; received Golden Globe (2004, 2005) nominations for Best Actress; left show in 2006 to care for her sick daughter; returned for the fifth season

Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company

Portrayed the young Queen Elizabeth I in the drama "Anonymous"; her real-life mother Vanessa Redgrave played Elizabeth later in the film

Summary

A member of one of the world's most acclaimed acting dynasties, Joely Richardson was a late bloomer in her family's chosen profession, but by the early 1990s and into the next century she established herself as a skilled performer, capable of tackling both period roles and modern day characters in features and on television. Her first major role was as a murderess in the art house favorite "Drowning By Numbers" (1988), and despite Hollywood's tendency to cast her in lighthearted roles like "101 Dalmatians" (1996), she did her best work in darker, more nuanced material like "Sister My Sister" (Channel 4, 1994) and "The Echo" (BBC, 1998). Her best known role - as the conflicted Julie McNamara on "Nip/Tuck" (FX, 2003-2010) - earned her both critical acclaim and widespread exposure, though Richardson appeared to favor substantive work over fame. As a result, she remained among the more widely respected actresses and earned more prestigious roles as a result. But as her career was moving along, Richardson suffered a tragic loss when her sister, actress Natasha Richardson, died from an epidural hematoma as the result of a skiing accident. With the eyes of the world on the famous family, Richardson returned to work, playing Queen Katherine Parr on "The Tudors" (Showtime, 2007-2010) and co-starring in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011), which helped underscore the enormity of her talent.

Academy Award-winning director of "Tom Jones" (1963); was bisexual and died of complications from AIDS at 63 in 1991

Natasha Richardson

Sister

Born in 1963; won a Tony Award for her role in the 1998 Broadway revival of "Cabaret"; married to actor Liam Neeson; died March 18, 2009 of head injury from skiing accident. She was 45 years old

Archibald Stirling

Companion

Involved c. 1990; Stirling was married to actor Diana Rigg at the time, but his affair ended the marriage

Jamie Theakston

Companion

Began relationship c. 2000; separated in spring 2001 due to work commitments

Education

Name

The Thacher School

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

St Paul's Girls' School

Harry Hopman Tennis School

Notes

"Mum loves working with the family, and has proposed it many times in the past, but I've always held off because it didn't seem right. Doing 'Lady Windermere,' I've learnt how mum is still so dedicated. She is fascinated by detail and still has the hunger of someone who's just out of drama school." – Richardson on working with her mother Vanessa Redgrave, to The Independent, Feb. 21, 2002

Richardson was forced to put her career on hold in the fall of 2006 to care for her sick daughter. The star quit her hit plastic surgery drama "Nip/Tuck" (FX) to be with her teenage daughter in London as she faced multiple operations to fix a circulation problem in her legs. Richardson returned for the show's fifth season in 2007.